RTD: No More Scripts

Replying to an online Questions & Answer session on the BBC News site, the outgoing Executive Producer – who remains in charge for the series of specials in 2009 – revealed that he wasn’t in Steven Moffat’s plans…

I think Steven’s more than his own man. He doesn’t need me at all.

I won’t write for it in the future. I’m done with it.

It’s time to move on and I’d hate to be just a ghost haunting the corridors that I used to walk.

And who needs me? Because Steve’s brilliant and they’ve got a thousand million plans. I’ll just be old news and it’s about time.

2010 is set to be a huge year for British television: a new Doctor Who production team, and elsewhere a new project for RTD…

A long-term Doctor Who fan, Christian grew up watching the show and has early memories of the Graham Williams era. His favourite stories are Inferno, The Seeds of Doom and Human Nature (although The Empty Child, Blink and Utopia all come close). When he’s not bossing around the news team, Christian is a freelance writer specialising in mobile technology and domestic computing, and enjoys classic rock, cooking and spending time in the countryside with his wife and young children. You can find him on Twitter, Facebook and Google+.